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The Trade Strategist

Jun Du

Trade policy decoded for decision-makers. I translate complex shifts in global commerce, US-China competition, and European strategy into frameworks you can use—drawing on sources and perspectives Western analysis typically overlooks.

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Latest Issues

Industrial Strategy for the Bigger Half

On Thursday this week I have enjoyed listening to a panel at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government on “Industrial Policy under Pressure”. The renowned economists Joseph Stiglitz, Ha-Joon Chang and Xiaolan Fu spent an hour and a...

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The Productive Foundations of a Middle Power

On Thursday, Donald Trump threatened to impose “a big tariff” on the United Kingdom unless it drops its digital services tax — a 2 per cent levy on US tech firms that raises roughly £800 million a year (CNBC; Time). It was the third such th...

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Making Devolution Deliver: Who Coordinates the Coordinators?

Last week, after I published my piece on Britain’s competitiveness map, a senior figure at the Department for Business and Trade asked me a question I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. The substack was an excellent read, he said — b...

2 months ago
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Britain Needs a New Map of Competitiveness

Competitiveness for Britain cannot mean what it means for the United States or China. Britain is a middle-sized, trade-dependent economy. It cannot impose terms through scale, dominate technological chokepoints, or absorb external shocks wi...

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Is Trump a Secret Agent for BYD?

A joke has been doing the rounds on Chinese social media this week: Donald Trump is secretly BYD’s sales representative in the West. By picking a fight with Iran, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and sending oil prices through the roof, h...

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